The annual Perseids meteor shower is known for its reliable stream of shooting stars, but one DX-er in Finland enjoyed...
Shortwave
Regarded as the best-known and most important of all the insurgent radio stations, today marks the 79th anniversary of the...
A request by the Shortwave Modernization Coalition (SMC) for the FCC to amend its rules to allow fixed, long-distance, non-voice...
Since May, ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has been reviewing the rules proposed in a petition before the...
The ad hoc group “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow data communications on multiple bands within the...
The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned...
As any radio amateur will tell you, the world of radio abounds with exciting possibilities. Probably the simplest pursuit of...
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Imagine you’re an amateur radio operator in the 70s for a moment. You’ve just...
Shortwave radio is a type of radio technology used for long-distance communication. It uses frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz,...
French broadcaster RTL has switched off its giant Beidweiler longwave transmitter in Luxembourg. RTL, which used the 234 kHz frequency, was the...
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS around the world heard an Alaskan science facility “chirp” an asteroid. On Twitter, ham radio users published audio and...
If you’ve ever owned a shortwave radio, you’ve probably listened at least a little to the BBC World Service. After...
Frequency bands within the electromagnetic spectrum have multiple, sometimes confusing, overlapping designations. Electronics engineers must deal with the electromagnetic spectrum...
We imagine that if told us he was listening to the HF bands, we might ask him which one? His...
has an interest in numbers stations. These mysterious stations send presumably coded numbers or other coded information. However, it is...
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) will be conducting their largest experiment and research campaign from October 19 -...
In the “old” days, people were used to the idea that radio communication isn’t always perfect. AM radio had cracks...
In the old days, a shortwave radio was a major desk fixture. These days, you can get truly diminutive radios....
Johnnie Walker is to host a show as part of a range of special programmes on Boom Radio on Sunday 14 August in...
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano exploded earlier this year, bringing down communications to and from Tonga, RNZ Pacific...
The Borneo Post reports on the importance of radio broadcasting in Sarawak The newspaper says: Radio broadcasting has imprinted a...
The annual Four Day Fundraiser will run on Radio Caroline and Caroline Flashback until midnight, UK time, on Monday, August...
Join us over the weekend of 16th-17th July for the next Radio Caroline North broadcast, live from our radio ship...
Presenters who played a key role in the survival of Radio Caroline in the 70s were reunited on board the...
The newest version of the Global Radio Guide is out. In this 18th edition, author Gayle Van Horn discusses “familiar...
